A Wild Wild Web Manifesto
- Physicality is overrated. I will strive to purchase or acquire digital versions of all things before physical. I will not print.
- If you don't know how the system works, then you are just a user. Users will be used. Don't be a user.
- The overwhelming majority of users are stupid. I don't care what stupid people think; therefore, I avoid the comments section of any site, unless it allows filtering and ranking.
- I will not click on the "Recommendations for You" links provided by consumer sites like Amazon and Netflix, my interests are too complex and ecclectic for any algorithm to predict.
- I will not allow the promise of A.I. rob me of personal responsibility. I will seek past the Google results. I will...
- People power the Internet. How we power it as individuals determines whether we are cogs in the machine or masters of it. When we re-tweet, like/dislike, or rate items, we are behaving like cogs.
- Pirates are capitalists, emulating the corporatist evils they claim to fight. True revolutionaries wouldn't trade in copyrighted media, but would promote creative commons artists.
- I reject Red-Baiting. Creative Commons, Net Neutrality, and Open Source are not are not Communism, Socialism, or "Digital Maoism". They are...
- I will resist homogenization. RSS, Facebook, and Wikipedia force content into a bland, standardized format. The front page of a news site directs attention in intelligent ways according to the aesthetic of fellow humans, not algorithms.
- I will not dumb-down my content or its title for stupid algorithms. Web hits produced by dumb algorithms are not worth degrading the media I produce.
- Homogenization is destroying the web. I will strive to produce unique content in unique ways. I will not allow my content to be vapidized by sites that force us to conform to their style.
- Supporting the arts?
Memes
23 JAN 2011
The Internet is Fueled by Curiosity and Generosity
The Internet relies on our greed for knowledge and connections, but also on our astonishing online generosity. We show inordinate levels of altruism on the Internet, wasting hours on chat room sites giving advice to complete strangers, or contributing anonymously to Wikipedia just to enrich other people’s knowledge. There is no guarantee or expectation of reciprocation. Making friends and trusting strangers with personal information (be it your bank details or musical tastes) is an essential ...
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It takes inquisitive minds to browse the Internet and generous minds to fill it with content.
01 JAN 2010
The End of the Wild Wild Web
The shift of the digital frontier from the Web, where the browser ruled supreme, to the smart phone, where the app and the pricing plan now hold sway, signals a radical shift from openness to a degree of closed-ness that would have been remarkable even before 1995. In the U.S., there are only three major cell-phone networks, a handful of smart-phone makers, and just one Apple, a company that has spent the entire Internet era fighting the idea of open (as anyone who has tried to move legally p...Folksonomies: new media wild wild web
Folksonomies: new media wild wild web
Stewart Brand said "Information wants to be free" but he also said that "Information wants to be expensive." As corporations restrict what we can do with computers, making them simpler, like the iPad and smart phones, where restrictions are marketed as features, the Internet becomes more homogenized, and we are more willing to pay for the content provided.
References
23 JAN 2011
By Changing My Behaviour, Over and Over Again
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Sumner, Seirian (January, 2010), By Changing My Behaviour, Over and Over Again, Edge Foundation, Inc., Retrieved on 2010-10-01Source Material [edge.org]
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01 JAN 2010
Closing the Digital Frontier
Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Hirschorn, Michael (2010), Closing the Digital Frontier, The Atlantic, July/August 2010, http://www.theatlantic.com, Retrieved on -0001-11-30Source Material [www.theatlantic.com]
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